Former Probate Court and Attached Area Railings
FORMER PROBATE COURT AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, BIRD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187360
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Former Probate Court and Attached Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER PROBATE COURT AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, BIRD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187360
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Former Probate Court and Attached Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER PROBATE COURT AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, BIRD STREET
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER PROBATE COURT AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, BIRD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lichfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 11412 09644
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109NW BIRD STREET 1094-1/4/37 (West side) 11/02/93 Former Probate Court and attached area railings
GV II
Former probate court; at one time a museum; now offices. 1856-8. Brick with ashlar dressings; slate roofs with tile crests; brick stacks. Double-depth single-storey range with basement, with cross wing to right. Single storey with basement; symmetrical 2-window range, with 2-storey-with-attic single-window range to right. Top cornices; single-storey range has sill course. Elliptical-headed entrance has moulded arch and hood, recessed 6-panel door; frieze above inscribed: PROBATE COURT. Single-storey range has basement with segmental-headed windows in chamfered openings and ground floor windows of 3 round-headed ovolo-mullioned lights with sashes in architraves; cross wing has canted bay window with 1:3:1 elliptical-headed lights, 1st floor has window of 3 elliptical-headed lights and dripstone, 2nd floor has 2-light hipped half-dormer. Left return has tall lateral stack with flanking round-headed lights; rear range is recessed, with 2 windows of 2 lights. Cross wing has lateral stacks; right return has entrance with chamfered surround, and 2-light 1st floor window and single 2nd floor light above. Rear has lateral stack and flanking hipped dormers. Plain iron area railings; plaque records site of a house where David Garrick spent his early life which was demolished in 1856. Until 1858 wills were generally proved in the diocesan courts; this building is a rare example of a purpose-built probate court. (Iredale D: Discovering Local History: Aylesbury: 1977-: P.48).
Listing NGR: SK1141209644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382583
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Iredale, D, Discovering Local History, (1977), 48
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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